Gumby wins the round, setting a new record of points in a race! =2nd goes to PeaQ and jps, who set the 2nd highest scores ever. LB, Pine & Dunder are top rookies with respectable scores of 60. Also included a career points table, continuing the points on from last year, with RacerX at the top.

This year I will be combining the results & pick threads so that you don't have to worry about me starting one! However, feel free to continue to discuss the results in here.

-----Welcome to MrA's Crashing League. Basically rather than score points based on finishing positions, it's going to be based on who crashes out of the race

Each driver will be worth different points, with a drivers value being adjusted after each round, depending on whether they crashed out or not. At the start of the year, each driver was worth 3pts, the adjusted after each round:

- Increase value by 2 if they did not crash out.- Decrease value by half (& round down) if they did crashed out.

For each round, everybody can pick three drivers. If any of your drivers crashes out of the race then you score score points. If a driver you picked is involved in a crash, the points who will be awarded will the that drivers value. If one of your drivers is involved in a crash that leads to a safety car period you will be awarded one and a half times that drivers value. Or if your driver causes a red flag you will get double points. When picking your drivers consider whether to go for somebody with a high value or a driver worth less but more likely to crash out. If a race is restarted, a driver can be awarded for crashed in both halves! You will also score points awards for 10 second penalties and DQ's

It's driver mistakes only, not mechanical faults. [Althought, I reserve the right to pick'n'choose as we go along ]

Now for a complicatred bit: In order to keep work down [I've got other t'ings to do] I'm going to write a quick program to automatically strip out entries from a page saved from the BB. This means that you entries will have to included a line as follows:

[[[Your name/Driver1/Driver2/Driver3]]]

sub'ing in as required. Drivers should be entered as the first four digits of their surname. ie Hakk, Vill, Salo, Fren. In the case of Schumacher's use RSch or MSch. [don't worry about case]

As an example, my entry is:

[[[MrA/Raik/Vill/Yoon]]]

Hope you can follow that, if not you know where to get me or just pick the three drivers you think will crash and learn as we go along. Oh, and please use the same name as before!

Driver values for this round as above [number to left of (+2),(+0) or (/2) 'in Driver Data' table]. If you change you mind about your pick, simply go back and edit your previous post.

Thanks!!! But I think it's a bit unfair that drivers like Fisichella and Massa got points when they didn't even start the crash, and Heidfeld got less points despite him crashing into the others. How do you work out the points scored for crashing?

to keep things simple, a driver is either in a crash or isn't. Theres no blame factor, that would get messy I think. Basically, if a driver retires from a crash they score, if they don't retire then they haven't crashed. Or if they crash and its a technical fault [ala Jaxs rear wing] then thats a no score too. Then its just a case of 1, 1.5 or 2 times the drivers value depending on if theres a safety car or red flag. Plus points for Frentzen DQ after ignoring the pitlane traffic light.

So why did you give RB more points than mini-MS? both were in the same crash at fault and mini-MS had a more espectacular crash!

Originally posted by MrAerodynamicist to keep things simple, a driver is either in a crash or isn't. Theres no blame factor, that would get messy I think. Basically, if a driver retires from a crash they score, if they don't retire then they haven't crashed. Or if they crash and its a technical fault [ala Jaxs rear wing] then thats a no score too. Then its just a case of 1, 1.5 or 2 times the drivers value depending on if theres a safety car or red flag. Plus points for Frentzen DQ after ignoring the pitlane traffic light.

Originally posted by titrisol So why did you give RB more points than mini-MS? both were in the same crash at fault and mini-MS had a more espectacular crash!

Because every driver has a separate point total (listed right after their name). They build up by finishing without a crash, so in 2001 RS must have wrecked more recently than RB since that determined their scores coming into the Australian GP.

Originally posted by titrisol So why did you give RB more points than mini-MS? both were in the same crash at fault and mini-MS had a more espectacular crash!

At rhe start of 1999 all the drivers had the same crash value - 3pts. Every race since then they've either gone up in value by 2pt [they didn't crash] or had their value halfed [they crashed]. Ralf has crashed more than Rb and so it worth less points. The idea is that you can't just picked the drivers who are always crashing but have to think a bit more and look for those drivers maybe don't tend to crash so much but you feel their time is soon to come. As far as the game is concerned, a crash it a crash, there are no style or blame bonuses!